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STEAM OR HOT WATER RADIATOR.

Patented Feb. 12, 1889.

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UAMUEL DUSEN 7)URY TOMPKINS AND THOMAS HILTON VILLIAMS, OF JERSEY CITY, NE\V JERSEY.

STEAM O R H 01W-WATER RADIATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,527, dated February l2, 18819.

Application filed January 16, 1888. Serial No. 260,911. (No model.) Patented in Canada June 14, 1887, No. 26,939.

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.15e it known that we, SAMUEL DUSENBURY loMPniNs and Tetonas lIiL'roN VILLiAns, both ot' Jersey (lity, county of Hudson, State ot' New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Steam or Hot-later Radiators, (previously patented in Canada byLetters Patent No. 26,939, dated June 14, 1887,) which are fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is an upright sectional 'pipe-radiator constructed according to our invention; Fig. 2, an end section thereot' with legs attached; ltig. 2i, au intermediate section; Fig. l, legs ot an end section detached; Fig. 5, a vertical cross view on the dotted line shown on Eig. l at i. liig. 5 is a vertical section through one segment of the radiator on line H B oi Fig. 5; Eig. (5, a horizontal cross view on the dotted line shown on Eig. 2 at A g 7, the lock-ruit nipple to connect sections at the top; Eig. S, the lock-nut; Figs. 9 and 10, side and ends views ot' theeccentric plug; Figs. 11 and l2, side and end views of the straight nipple connecting the sections at the bottom.

The object ot our invention is to construct a thre pipe radiator,adapted for use with either steam or hot water, capable ot' bein put together with great economy and facility. This object is attaintnl by the use of a peculiar lock-nut-nipple connection at the top of each of thc several sections and straight nipple-co1nwcti us at the base.

A further object is to construct plugs for the supply and return pipes capable of receiving pipes ot' various sizes without changing' the size ot the plug-receivingoriiice, and this we accomplish by making the plugs screwthreaded, whereby they may be readily detached and replaced by others, and by mal;- ing each with a pipe-receiving opening eccentric to the periphery of the plug, so that the pipe maybe joined to the radiator `at thc lowest possible point.

In the drawings, A represents the com pound sectional base of the radiator; B, B', and B3,

the legs thereof; C, C', and C2, the vertical tubes; D, the inlet of steam and water passection composed of tubes (1,(1, and C2; P,

the shoulder on lock-nutnipple I. These devices are united into a radiator as follows:

' Compound base A is formed by connecting several sections of the three vertical tubes G, C', and G2, cast in one piece, together by interposing straight nipple L, having previously introduced lock-nut nipple I into the passage ot airpipe ll in one section to connectit with the next adjacent section.

The insertion of lock-nu t nipple I is ef't'ected by reason of its novel construction.

Lock-nut .I is turned up toward solid shoulder P, introducing the lock-nut end ot nipple I into air-tube orifice H sutiicient to secure the clearance ot' the other end from the adjacent section when in position. Applying a wrench to shoulder P, the lock-nut end of nipple I is unscrewed from orifice II of the iirst section and the shoulder end of nipple I screwed into air-orifice I-I otl the adjacentsection. Lock-nut .I is then turned up rigidly against the first section. Eccentric plug K is now placed in position upon the ends of the two outer sections, to which, it not cast therewith, legs B B are attached. These legs are of peculiar formation, as may be seen in the drawings, Figs. and it, exhibiting shoulders and circular shapes, to which boss N at the base ol' the section composed ot' vertical tubes C, C and (l2 con torms, and by which, when the parts are conjoined, a rigid and secure attachment is effected. Eccentric plug K has its orifice at one side ot' the center, that the oritice may be always brought, when the plug is applied to a section, to the lowest point of steam and water passage G, thereby securing the certain Vlow oi the water ot coi'idensation outward, and leaving the vertical tubes and compound base tree for the rapid and iininterrupted circulation ol steam or water through the same, the conlined air having escaped through pipe Il. when its valve was open.

The action of the apparatus is as follows: Steam entering at inlet D, the valve of airpipe H having tirstbeen opened, rushes into and through Central tube, C', and down. Outer tubes() and C2, producing' a positive circulation. Vhen water is the heating medium, similar action takes place, the gradual Warming and rising column of fluid displacingpri-- marily the cold water in central tube,(l, and, secondarily, that in outer tubes, C and C2.

It is obvious that the .radiator described combines the essential requisites of cheap construction, the parts being few, ready, and quick-placing in position to an indefinite eX- tent, as the size of the building may require, and the highest attainable eftieie1icy,\vliicl1 ever agent is employed to distribute heat.

The number of tubes in a section may be multiplied, a central tube or tubes being relatively maintained to act, as hereinbeiore explained, in conjunction with its or their neighbOrs.

lVhat We claim as our invention, and desire to secure b v Letters Patent, is-

1. A compound radiator composed of interj changeable sections united at their bases by screw-nipples, and having alV their tops coinplug at the Outlet end having a hole below the center, substantially as described.

A compound sectional radiator composed of sections having openings of equal sizes at their bases, in combination with nipples eX- ten ding into the openings of the adjacent sections, the outlet and inlet sections having l are of the same size as the nipples, substanl tially as described.

SAMUEL DUSENBURY TOMPKINS. l THOMAS HILTON WILLIAMS.

lVitnesses S. J. GORDON,

JOHN W. RIPLEY.

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